Word: plate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Talk about strange bedfellows. There were Feminists Valerie Harper, Jean Stapleton and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke clustered around their hosts, Hugh Hefner and his daughter Christie, who were throwing a $100-a-plate dinner in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Reasoned the president of Playboy Enterprises, Inc.: "Playboy is clearly a major factor in the sexual revolution. And clearly the social-sexual revolution is related to the women's movement." Nor were the feminists shy about accepting Hef's hospitality. Said Burke: "The people we have to get to support ERA are some of Hefner's constituents...
FRIDAY NIGHT: He could hear them yelling "Slide! Slide!" Home plate was only a few feet away. So what if he hadn't played softball since college 20 years ago? So what if he now weighed 275 Ibs. ? He could do it. He knew he could. He slid ... They carried him off the field...
...carried him past Frank Frisch's record for switch-hitters and into the select circle of 3,000-hit men. While breaking Holmes' record, Rose performed with the tenacious concentration that has marked his career. Six times he kept the streak alive on his last turn at the plate...
...hustle Enos Slaughter personified and the aggressive disregard for physical safety of Ty Cobb. Running like a blocking back, Rose has broken up more double plays?and infielder's pride?than any other man playing baseball today. During the 1970 All-Star game, a bone-crunching collision at home plate left Cleveland Catcher Ray Fosse sitting stunned in the dust and television viewers aghast. In 1973 Rose had a wrestling match with Mets Shortstop Bud Harrelson that left New York shrieking for his blood. Fans in rival cities pelted him with debris and jeered his every move...
...back to The Slump. I can't remember seeing the Sox so feeble at the plate at any time since 1975. George Scott looks pathetic--but you have to feel sorry for the Boomer. It's painful watching Boston's racist fans get on him in particular (although he is in a worse slump than anyone else) when the rest of the team is messing up, too. But Boomer's heroics of late make you wonder yet again about that trade with Milwaukee two years ago for Cecil Cooper. Cecil is 25 and a future great, but for the Boomer...